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Human Voices of Tomorrow's Doctors
ISBN: PB: 9781512603330, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
200 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm
Medical professionals are often viewed as a special breed of stoic figures whose tough grace allows them to stay strong as they confront human frailty and tragedy on a daily basis. "Human" is a new anthology that aims to dispel this unhelpful line of...
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£19,00
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
ISBN: PB: 9780226623702, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country".Mama Might Be Better Off D...
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Healthy Eating - Low Fructose 100 Recipes to Calm the Stomach
ISBN: FLEXI: 9781742574738, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, June 2015
132 pp., 25.9x23 cm, colour illus.
In Western countries approximately 1 in 3 people suffer from sometimes extremely severe digestion problems after ingesting frutose.For many,it has become a daily discomfort because high levels of frutose are now found in many foods,not just fruit. H...
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Cancer on Trial Oncology as a New Style of Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780226143040, ISBN: HB: 9780226428918, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 28 line illus.
Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy. Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic courses of chemotherapy as highly questionable. The randomized cl...
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£42,00
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Great Medical Discoveries An Oxford Story
ISBN: PB: 9781851240036, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2013
96 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
The "miracle drug" penicillin was first given intravenously to a patient in Oxford on 12 February 1941, leading to a transformation in the way that bacterial infection is understood and treated. What was to become one of the greatest stories in biome...
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Surgical Consent Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation
ISBN: PB: 9781563685835, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 tables
With the rate of cochlear implantation reaching 80% to 90% of all deaf children, some as young as five months old, "Surgical Consent: Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation" arrives at a critical juncture. This comprehensive collection features essays b...
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£49,00
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Challenging Operations Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery
ISBN: PB: 9780226430034, ISBN: HB: 9780226430027, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
248 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 line illus.
In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent obs...
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£25,00
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£76,00
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Disease Maps Epidemics on the Ground
ISBN: HB: 9780226449357, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
344 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 2 tables, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line illus.
In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea – that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the...
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